My oven has been busy busy busy today. Firstly I made some scotch eggs from this recipe Home made scotch eggs.
I used a pack of cumberland sausages and deconstructed them for the sausagemeat. My top tip would be to wet your hands when flattening it out. Oh my goodness they were SO yummy. They made Mr D's face do this:
I like scotch eggs anyway but I don't think I'll be able to eat a bought one ever again - and it's nice to know the eggs are free-range.
Then I made some flapjack. We had the most delicious flapjack in Pret-a-manger the other day and this is my attempt at copying that. I used an ordinary flapjack recipe (from the Cookie and Biscuit Bible) and then added dried cherries, blueberries, apricots and cranberries, plus some pecans and pumpkin seeds. I was pretty pleased with them until I spoke to my sister and she reminded me that I had meant to put coconut in as well. Ggrr!
I also did a red onion and brie tart which was really easy (particularly as I used ready-made puff pastry - oh no that makes a lie of my blog title!) and tasty. Also it made Mr D look slightly crazed but happy so that was a good achievement.
I was looking at the Dulux website yesterday for some paint colour ideas - they have one called Baking Day which I will have to have somewhere in my house, even though it is a slightly boring shade of beige!
